I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent being would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars.- Charles Darwin
Imagine, you woke up one morning only to realize that
- Someone hijacked your body.
- Injected hundreds of their eggs.
- Disabled your natural anti-body with their biological weapon.
- All happened within a fraction of a second without your knowledge.
- Eggs hatch one day and the larvae feed on your living body.
- From that day onwards little do you know that you eat not for you but for many and not your own.
- One day, babies will eat-through your skin and break open your body and tiptoe away without a word of thanks.
- Thanks? Not a big deal, you will be dead anyway.
Quite a Sci-fi story huh?. Not really, it actually happens to caterpillars all the time that they learned to live with that!!
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